[Alphabetter Juice 01] • Alphabetter Juice by Blount-Jr., Roy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Table of Contents Introduction a · A · a

abacus accentuation accompaniment acnestis ad hominy adulation adverb aid, marital airplane and arbitrary architect (the verb) awesome

b · B · b

back in the day bean bearless beauty, depth of belch bigth blab, blabber bless blob bloggerheads, at blurt body boo books, randomly readable boy bubble buckra bum but

c · C · c

celebrity ch chimera Chinese sense of time Chinese, would-be purification of clever clown consonant coot cotton cough crawfish, crayfish crustaceous

d · D · d

Daddy dangling modifier decapitate device, narrative, what would you call this one device, similar, but not quite the same Dionysian, Apollonian, blended, briefly discalced distance, the verb dubbed dwell

e · E · e

e, short, the new each other ear, writing for the -ed, -èd eel elephant enough errata ew expertise

f · F · f

fancy feted fewer/less first sentence flies flulike foil fond fool, e.g., Will Somers (or Sommers) form fox free speech frequent Frisian frog fudge full disclosure fuss future, the, caught for the moment fuzz

g · G · g

gag garden path phenomenon gender neutrality, absurd ghostwriting gikl gillie, girl glass Gmail? gnat Godwottery going global golf gollywaddles Google-logisms grammar/glamour granular growsome

h · H · h

Haskell, Eddie head headlines hiccup hippopotamus hopefully humble hunch hyphen

i · I · i

ingenuity “Is the pope fallible?,” alternatives to itch

j · J · j

Jack jejune joke, linguists’, which I don’t get either juice jump

k · K · k

kick kiss kludge knee knickers knickknack

l · L · l

laughing, in letters laughs, textual lawyer joke, earliest ling, lit, don’t invite ’em looks, poetic lunge -ly

m · M · m

mediablur me-fear memory, institutional metanarrative, pig and possum throwing me-time mimi mixed metaphor modernism/postmodernism mouse music

n · N · n

name, fictional, too often taken for granted names, common but relationship straining (I would imagine) names, funny names, good ones names, not so good names, unexpected negative, double nice nitty-gritty

o · O · o

oaf OED and me off-off rhymes Ojibwa/Chippewa/Anishanabe omen onesies ooze ouistiti outdo ox

p · P · p

pachyderm/pachysandra page turning pang peeve pet, peevish ping-pong plank poop-noddy, noddypoop portmanteau preemptive prescient prick prior to proposal, wording of, proper pshaw pu- puffery pun punctilious puppy purl

q · Q · q

Q-tip questions not to ask an author, with answers quip

r · R · r

racism rank recursion, excessive redundancy rhythm robinhood rumpsprung

s · S · s

-sh, sh- shrapnel sic sigh since slave slaver/slobber slip slush smithereens snazzy sneeze so sonicky spelling splotch sports talk sportswriting squelch sting strumpet subjunctive succinct such supercalifragilisticexpialidocious syllabus synesthesia

t · T · t

ta T and A tare tenrec their, them, they, the singular there thigh thong though, the lazy tight like that tit toadless touchy translation, of Mark Twain, into English tsk-tsk tut-tut tutu’s, the two Twain, Mark, little bits he never used typos, going with them

u · U · u

ukulelelike undertaker yarns, lost undulation upaya urge

v · V · v

vim vowel

w · W · w

wasp wavelet Weekley, Ernest well ,well, well-intentioned wheatear whistle whiz who, whom, tsk, tsk Wikipedia wisdom wise, -wise wobble woe woomph writer’s block

x · X · x

Xanadu Xit X-ray xylophone

y · Y · y

y’all yare, yar ylid yo you you-all

z · Z · z

zeroth zest, zester zizz zolotnik zwischenzug Zydeco zythum

Also by Acknowledgments A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Copyright Page

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